'The Bachelor' alum Colton Underwood marrying fiance Jordan C. Brown soon

By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 01/17/2023

Former The Bachelor star Colton Underwood has revealed that he and fiance Jordan C. Brown will be getting married soon.

Colton took to Instagram on Monday, January 16 and posted a slideshow of photos of the couple, including one image of the men wearing suits and standing hand in hand at a friend's wedding.

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"I have good news," the Season 23 The Bachelor star captioned the pictures. "The next wedding we attend will be our own."

Former The Bachelor franchise host Chris Harrison noticeably commented, "Somebody's getting a new toaster! Love ya brother. Tell me when and where. Congratulations."

Colton, who recently traveled to France with Jordan and has said he'd like to raise children with his fiance, announced his engagement to the political strategist in February 2022 after the pair dated for less than one year.

Colton took to Instagram at the time and teased the big announcement by posting a photo with Jordan and writing, "Life is going to be fun with you."

Jordan also posted a picture of Colton popping a champagne bottle and wrote, "The only time in my life I'm ok with wasting a bottle of champagne. I love you babe."

Colton, who starred on The Bachelor's 23rd season and publicly declared he's gay on Good Morning America in April 2021, told People after accepting Jordan's marriage proposal that he was "extremely happy!"

Colton added, "2021 was the most transformative year of my life. Starting 2022 off with my best friend, teammate and now fiance is something I never thought was going to be possible."

Colton revealed that his engagement took place in Big Sur, CA, following his big and "unforgettable" 30th birthday celebration in late January 2022 with his loved ones.

"After my birthday, Jordan and I went to Big Sur for a weekend getaway to decompress and relax in nature," Colton shared. "I couldn't have pictured a more beautiful place to celebrate an amazing milestone in my life and relationship."

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Colton and Jordan went Instagram official in early December 2021.

One day after Colton's docu-reality series Coming Out Colton premiered December 3, 2021 on Netflix, Colton posted photos of the pair on his Instagram Story and wrote to Jordan, "Happy birthday to my dog-loving, family man, corn-fed love."

"I wasn't really pursuing dating at first. But since then I found somebody and I am very much in love," Colton told People at the time.

Colton called Jordan a "great support" at the time and added, "I'm the luckiest person to have him in my life." They had already met each other's family at that point.

Within a month of making their relationship public, Colton and Jordan purchased a $3 million home together in Sherman Oaks, CA.

"I was struggling with my sexuality but I had such a level of fear over being gay," Colton previously told People.

"Now that I've been out to myself for a year, it's the healthiest and happiest I've ever felt. And there is nothing I would ever want to be but gay."

Colton, however, decided against featuring Jordan in his Netflix docu-reality series.

"I have been through that. I have done that. Even going into the show, that was one of the conversations with the production company," Colton explained to Us Weekly in late 2021.

"I'm not in a space right now to really, like, put myself out there like that," he said. "I had a lot of self-discovery to do."

Colton assured Us that he was "not hiding" his relationship but just wanted some privacy for the start of his first gay relationship.

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Before officially posting photos with one another, Colton made his attraction to Jordan known by commenting on a picture of Jordan wearing a suit to the Baby 2 Baby gala in November 2021.

Colton commented with a fire and a heart emoji.

Colton and Jordan were first linked in September 2021, when they were photographed kissing and flirting during a romantic getaway to a Four Seasons resort in Maui, HI.

According to an eyewitness, the Season 23 The Bachelor star was "making out and snuggling" with Jordan by the hotel pool, Us reported at the time.

"They were tanning and swimming. They were very out in the open and not hiding their PDA!" the eyewitness added.

Colton publicly declared he's gay following his devastating breakup from The Bachelor 23 winner Cassie Randolph in May 2020 after 18 months of dating.

The former pro football player shared on GMA in April 2021 how he had never experienced an "emotional connection" with a person of the same sex before.

"I'm looking for someone who can push me and challenge me in all the right ways. I still have a long ways to go. I'm still learning," Colton said at the time.

Cassie said she had no idea Colton was gay during the course of their relationship and was never given a heads-up that he'd be coming out as gay on national television.

What started out as an amicable split turned nasty in June 2020 when Colton got angry about Cassie appearing on a Bachelor special after they had agreed to handle their breakup privately. Cassie thought she respected Colton's wishes and proceeded to accuse her ex of trying to "monetize" their breakup by writing about it in his The First Time memoir.

Colton allegedly put a tracking device on Cassie's car, sent her "unsettling" text messages, and would stand outside her apartment or her parents' house very late at night, which resulted in a restraining order against Colton that was ultimately dropped once a private agreement was reached in November 2020.

The Bachelor is now in Colton and Cassie's rearview mirror. She's been happily dating a family friend, musician Brighton Reinhardt, since May 2021.

"I guess we're serious," Cassie said on the "Ben and Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast" in October 2022.

"I hope [he's The One]. I think so! We have talked about proposals and we have talked about rings. I don't think I'm supposed to know [if or when he's going to pop the question]. I feel like he wants me to be surprised, and I don't know how I feel [about being surprised]."

The former football player told GMA in 2021 that he realized he was different at the age of six and came to the conclusion he's gay when he was a freshman in high school.

Colton said he hated himself "for a long time" and was "a miserable person living as a shell of a human being" while pretending to be straight for well over a decade.

In addition to having starred on The Bachelor, Colton also appeared on The Bachelorette 14 starring Becca Kufrin and Bachelor in Paradise 5 when he dated Tia Booth.

Colton has said in the press he thought being the Bachelor and dating Cassie could make him straight but he was ultimately lying to himself and he feels badly for having hurt so many women on his season.